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  1. Rifle Cleaning

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    Hi,

    Best product Ive forund is Boretech Eliminator. Has no ammonia. I only use nylon brushes and flannel patches to clean with. I use Tipton plated jags as this stuff will show blue with anything bronze or brass. Will pull out carbon and copper layers in your barrel that most other products cant shift. Usually takes half hour to clean a gun - 20 minutes of which is letting the solvent work in the barrel.

    Cheers

  2. Older sako rifles

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    Hi Dave,

    I have a A1 heavy barrel in 17MK IV and a 491 heavy barrel in 223 and the most spectacular looking P94 22cal. Wouldn't swap them for quids. The A1 A2 and 491 best Sakos made - better than the 75 and 85 series (the back of the case is exposed to the top lug raceway when the rifle is loaded and cocked). Out here the earlier Sako's are appreciating in value.

    Cheers

  3. Modern day competition target rifles....

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    Hi

    depends on what you want to shoot - prone, 3P, benchrest, silhoette. Anschutz and Feinwerkbau make excellent prone/3P rifles which are extremely expensive and look like something out of starwars. Most of the open class benchrest rifle I shoot against are Anschutz. Mine is old Vostok CM2 with an altered stock. It is very competitive - awesome hammerforged barrel, 1.8oz trigger and a barrel tuner on the front. Shot a pair of 199's last saturday and still only came second. (our bullseye is 11mm at 50 m)

    Cheers

  5. Considering A Barrel Chop

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    Hi,

    why do you want to cut the barrel. Out here I believe a 14 inch barrel is illegal for a rifle. Also for a rimfire rifle you need 16 inches of barrel to get full benefit from the powder charge. Finally it would look ugly and out of proportion. If you want to put a can on the front get it cut and threaded at 18 or 19 inches. Cheers

  7. .222/.223 for vermin?

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    Posted · Edited by macca

    Hi,

    havent read all the posts in this thread but will add the comment that the 221 fireball is a far superior cartridge to the hornet. Uses around 18 grains of powder to push a 35 gn vmax at over 3500fps. It is rimless and hence headspaces on the shoulder rather than the rim, has a better defined neck and thicker brass than the hornet and is far more accurate.

    Cheers

  9. 7mm-08

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    Posted · Edited by macca

    Hi,

    Brilliant round, more ballistically efficient than the 308 at the same bullet weight, seems to have less felt recoil than a 308. 139GN Hornady SST's shoot brilliantly. Mine is a Titan 6 weight is 7lb 10 oz with a 2-10x50 weaver on top.

    Cheers

  11. Titan 3

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    Hi,

    I have the titan 6 in 708. Absolutely brilliant firearm, lightweight and accurate, extremely well built. Can change barrels in 10 minutes, no head space problems, wieghs 7lb 10 oz with a 2-10x50 weaver on top. Titan 3 is excellent as well.

    Cheers

  13. .22 Hornet or .222?

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    Posted · Edited by macca

    Hi,

    204 is noisier than a 223,it is based on the 222rem mag case, necked down to 20 calibre. The 17 Ackerly hornet will barely give 3100 with a 25 grain pill and has the problem that it head spaces off the rim and the shoulder - causes case stretching and cracking unless the chamber is matched exactly to the dies.

    I use a mK IV (17 fireball) and only ever neck size. The 221 fireaball and the 17 remington fireball are extremely efficient cases - look very similar to scaled down ppc and 6 br cases. Noise wise they are a little louder than the hornet but with a good can on the front you will remove most of the blast noise. I use the same powder in my 223 and my MK IV and there is 6.5 grains difference in charge. The 25 grain pill out of the MK IV travels 500fps faster than the 55 gn 223 pill for 6.5 grains less powder. Remington make an SPS in 17 remington fireball, RCBS make a 3 die set. I use Hornady 25gn hollow points, benchrest primers and 18.5 grains of benchmark powder. Rifle is a Sako A1 heavy barrel varminter which was originally a 17 remington. My gunsmith removed 1/2 inch of barrel and recut the chamber to the MK IV - nothing was done to the magazine. Gun wears an 8x56 kahales. Trigger is set at 14 ounces-and it shoots. It kills far above its size.

    Cheers

  14. .22 Hornet or .222?

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    Hi Tin man,

    the whisper is not a fox gun - it is a 221 fireball case necked up to 30 calibre and pushes a 200 grain lead cast gas checked projectile at subsonic speeds. It can be made very very quiet. Very accurate. Interstingly with a small amount of modification to gas cycling system and a 30 calibre barrel it makes a very quiet wemi auto based on any box magazine semi auto 223. The round, with a 200 grain projectile is almost identical in size to a standard 223 military round.

    The 17 mkIV or 17 remington fireball are the way to go for fox rounds. The Yanks use them out to 400 yards on prairie dogs.

    Cheers

  15. .22 Hornet or .222?

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    Hi,

    if you are set on a hornet for the reasons you stated a far superior cartridge for you is a rifle chambered in 221 fireball. 35 grain projectile at around 3500fps - very flat and very quiet. Does not have the case problems that the hornet has. I use two rifles which use the fireball case as the parent - 17mkIV and the 300 whisper. Saying that the MK IV and its commercial equivalent the remington 17 fireball are far superior to the hornet and tick all the boxes you have indicated. My MKIV is set 1/2 inch high at 100 and will headshoot any fox that you can see in the light (240 lightforce)- no holdover.

    Cheers

  16. .22 Hornet or .222?

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    Hi,

    not the hornet - rimmed cartridge, thin brass, sometimes headspace problems, older guns need 223 diameter pills. 222 was the choice of benchrest fraternity until the PPC came along. Very accurate, can be loaded back to hornet speeds, takes 224 pills. 223 originally developed as a military cartridge, extremely accurate and now more popular than 222 and cheaper to buy ammo for. Can be loaded back substantially. More variety of manufactures chambering 223.

    Cheers

  17. opions required please

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    Hi,

    most of my fox shoting is done under light - my preferred firearm is a sako heavy A2 varmint int 17MK IV (25 grain projectile at 3800+fps). Very flat to 200+metres - mine is deadon at 100 metres and will head shoot anything in the light (lightforce 240) Very quiet compared to all the calibres mentioned. If you have a 243 then the swift and 250 are very close in performance - why bother. Remington produce the 17 remington fireball in their SPS series - relatively cheap gun but very accurate.

    Cheers

  22. hodgdon vagret powder

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    Hi,

    I believe you will find varget is the Australian made powder AR2208. The website for the manufacturers reloading data is http://www.thalesgroup.com.au/handloaders-guide/rifle.asp

    Good quality military brass is fine to use if prepared properly - full length resized with 223 dies and the crimp removed with a crimp remove reamer(slightly different to a primerpocker reamer). Once shot the brass can then be necked sized. Personally I use 25.5gn AR2206H (H4895) for a very accurate load. Benchmark2 (benchmark) also gives superb accuracy.

    Cheers

  24. Varget

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    Hi Guys,

    thought Id add this to the thread. If you use any of these hogdon powders then you can use the load data on the ADI site as a start for your loads. Cheers macca

    ADI AR2206H = H4895

    AR2208 = Varget

    AR2209 = H4350

    AR2213SC = H4831

    AR2217 =H1000

    AR2219 =H322

    AR2225 =Retumbo

  25. Varget

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    Probably the most versatile powder in the ADI range is AR2206H which I think is H4895 and AA2460. I use it in my 223, 6BR dasher and my 7/08. I use BM2 in my 17MKIV, 25/20 and 300 whisper. Out here full bor shootrs are rstricted to AR2206H for both the 223 and 308. Its extremely versatile as is BM2. Compared to imported brands it is chaper and far more available.

    Cheers macca

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